Academic Resources: Graduate Programs
Yale University
Degrees offered:
- Yale University does not have a formal degree program in medical anthropology, but does offer the PhD in both socio-cultural and physical anthropology, as well as in archaeology and cultural linguistics. It offers courses for students interested in medical anthropology in both the anthropology and public health departments. Other departments and programs at the University provide additional academic resources for students interested in medical anthropology, including the School of Medicine, the Forestry School, and a variety of programs including Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and the Center for Health Policy Studies.
Medical Anthropology Faculty:
- Nora Groce - social and organizational behavior, cross cultural aspects of disability
nora.groce@yale.edu - Karen Nakamura - disability and political identity, social movements, Japan.
karen.nakamura@yale.edu
Affiliated Faculty include:
- Richard Bribiescas - PhD Harvard 1997 - biological and molecular biology
richard.bribiescas@yale.edu
Program information:
- The Anthropology Department at Yale offers the PhD in three subfields: cultural, physical, and archaeology. Faculty members work in diverse areas of the world including Latin America, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The department has strong links to the departments of American Studies, Women's Studies, African and African American Studies, Political Science, and Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as programs in the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, and the Agrarian Studies Program. The size of the anthropology faculty varies depending on the number of visiting faculty, but numbers around twenty to twenty-one.
- Each year some eight to twelve graduate students are admitted. The department is committed to developing creative scholars and scientists, and to this end admits a small number of students each year, assisting them in developing flexible, individual programs leading to the conduction of original and creative research. Each student is supervised by an advisory committee of three to four faculty members, and meets each semester with this committee. All of our graduate students are supported on fellowships. Students typically spend two years in coursework, taking qualifying exams in the spring of their second year. A third year is spent applying for fieldwork grants and, usually, working as a teaching fellow. Fellowships for write up following fieldwork are also available, and the department also has funds for summer research projects and travel to academic meetings.
- Yale University is located in New Haven, CT, and is located between New York City and Boston. The combination of the accessibility of New Haven and the prestige of Yale University encourages many scholars from diverse fields to visit, often giving public lectures open to the University Community. The Anthropology Department at Yale offers the opportunity for individualized instruction in a rich and diverse academic community. An increasing number of our students choose medical anthropology topics for their dissertations. In addition, students participating in the MD-PhD program at Yale Medical School can and have elected to take the PhD in Anthropology, and the Anthropology Department also has a joint PhD with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
For more information, please contact Karen Nakamura.
Address:
- Dept. of Anthropology
Yale University
P.O. Box 2082077
New Haven, CT 06520-8277
(203) 432-3675
FAX (203) 432-3669
